ሰይፍ

Amharic

Etymology

From Arabic سَيْف (sayf).

Noun

ሰይፍ • (säyf) ?

1. sword

Related terms

• ሰየፈ (säyäfä)
• ተሰየፈ (täsäyäfä)

 

Ge'ez

Etymology

From Arabic سَيْف (sayf).

Noun

ሰይፍ • (säyf) (plural አስያፍ (ʾäsyaf), and አስይፍት (ʾäsyəft))

1. sword

References

• Dillmann, August (1865) “ሰይፍ”, in Lexicon linguae aethiopicae cum indice latino (in Latin), Leipzig: T. O. Weigel
• Leslau, Wolf (1991) Comparative Dictionary of Geʿez (Classical Ethiopic), 2nd edition, Wiesbaden: Otto Harrassowitz, →ISBN, page 522a

Tigre

Etymology

From Arabic سَيْف (sayf).

Noun

ሰይፍ • (säyf) (plural አሰይፍ (ʾäsäyəf), and አስይፍ (ʾäsəyəf))

1. sword

References

• Leslau, Wolf (1982) North Ethiopic and Amharic cognates in Tigre (Supplemento n. 31 al Vol. 42 fasc. 2 (Annali))‎^[1], Napoli: Istituto universitario Orientale, page 70
• Littmann, Enno, Höfner, Maria (1962) “ሰይፍ”, in Wörterbuch der Tigrē-Sprache. Tigrē—Deutsch—Englisch (Veröffentlichungen der Orientalischen Kommission der Akademie der Wissenschaften und der Literatur; XI)‎^[2], Wiesbaden: Franz Steiner Verlag GmbH, page 196a
• Raz, Shlomo (1983) Tigre grammar and texts (Afroasiatic Dialects; 4), Malibu: Undena Publications, →ISBN, page 19